If truly liberal policies were ever passed in this country, there would be no BP disaster

[G_j]

Progressive liberals are environmentalists.

Repeat:
If truly liberal policies were ever passed in this country, there would be no BP disaster!


Is this the fucking political compromise some keep saying we must make?

Take a good fucking look, because this will happen again!!!


get up, stand up,

[texastoast]

1. Correct

IF we had started listening 40 years ago and had the integrity THEN to do what it takes to change, our children (probably you) would be in much better shape.

I wish humans had a dominant "learn-from-history" gene. Apparently, we do not.

[Oregone]

2. Wouldn't truly liberal policies essentially nationalize the energy sector for the benefit of all?

There would be no BP drilling here in the first place.

[Echo In Light]

3. Corporations are private tyrannies, un-democratic, and not liberal in the least

K/R

[polichick]

4. That's right - and liberals are always on the right side of history...

...with centrist Democrats dragging ass behind and Repubulicans fighting all the way.

Now, though, we have corporate whores as far as the eye can see!

[BeFree]

5. Hippies were right

Palin says greenies are to blame. Actually it is the 'brownies' who are to blame. They want unregulated drilling anywhere and everywhere.

If the greenies had there way, there might be deepwater drilling, but then there may not be a need for deepwater drilling. If drilled, it would have been closely supervised and would have halted this project when problems started happening.

Now the big news is that: "America is addicted to oil". Well, hell, that's what the hippies and greenies have been saying for years.

So what will the leaders do? Listen to Palin, who as been proven to be wrong, or listen to the hippies and greenies who have been correct all along?

Obama seems to be on the move... will we support that move or just throw up our hands and drive, baby, drive?

[xultar]

6. Liberal policies will never prevent someone from being too lazy to do thi job or being bought off!

Government employees were bought off and lied through their teeth. They cheated and fucked up shit on purpose.

Indont care who is in office who passes what policy people are gonnna fuck up shit until they het called on and fired and sent to fucking jail.

We should have been sending people to jail for years decades in mining and oil of we prosecuted for safety violatons

[G_j]

7. it's more than that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8474784


The President offered the excuse the other day that the reason why
there was inadequate environmental vetting for what has become the
Deep Horizon oil disaster was that a provision of law had passed
which only permitted 30 days for such a review, making it a practical
impossibility. Of course, that is precisely why corporate lobbyists
for the oil industry inserted into law this crippling of any
attempted regulatory oversight in the first place.

.....


So too with the liability limitation of million on corporate
responsibility for wreaking havoc on our environment. Again, this was
just another corporate irresponsibility safety valve, so they would
not have to even concern themselves about putting all the rest of us
in grave danger. And so they did. It is even being reported that
Transocean made a whopping $270 million profit on the destruction of
their over-insured drilling rig.

...

Well, the federal government has done plenty, for many decades,
through the grandstanding corporate owned shills that they keep
electing to Congress, to pass precisely the laws that made such a
disaster so inevitable ... again. In point of fact, the 75 million
dollar liability limit was inserted into the original so-called
"reform" bill in the aftermath of the original Exxon Valdez disaster,
just as every other reform bill as far back as the eye can see has
been made toothless because of pressure from corporate special
interests. And so now we see the result of a failure to impose
decisive and real reform, an even bigger calamity.

....